Brenna Argall is an Associate Professor
of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Mechanical
Engineering and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern
University. She is founder and director of
the assistive & rehabilitation robotics laboratory (argallab) at the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago (RIC, now the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab), the premier
rehabilitation hospital in the United States. The mission of the
argallab is to advance human ability through robotics
autonomy. Argall is a 2016 recipient of
the NSF CAREER award, and was named one of the 40 under 40 by
Crain’s Chicago Business.
Prior
to joining Northwestern and RIC, Argall was a postdoctoral fellow
(2009-2011) with Prof. Aude Billard in
the Learning Algorithms and
Systems Laboratory at the École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her Ph.D. in
Robotics (2009) was co-advised by Prof. Manuela Veloso and Dr. Brett
Browning at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she
was affiliated with the CORAL Research
Group. She
has lived in Doha, Qatar (2007), while assistant-teaching at
Carnegie Mellon's Qatar
Campus, and
in Brisbane, Australia (2008), while a research intern within
the Autonomous
Systems Laboratory at CSIRO. Her M.S. in Robotics (2006),
and B.S. in Mathematics (2002), along with minors in Music and
Biology, also were received from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to graduate
school, she held a Computational Biology position in
the Laboratory of Brain and
Cognition,
at the National Institutes of
Health
(NIH).